Neandertallica

The only truth is music. - Jack Kerouac

He has Van Gogh's ear for music. - Billy Wilder

Dancing with her was like moving a piano. - Ring Lardner

Music is a means of rapid transportation. - John Cage

Jazz is not dead... it just smells funny. - Frank Zappa

Snoring: 1. Sheet music; 2. Sound sleeping. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Without music, life is a journey through a desert. - Pat Conroy

You can't touch music, but music can touch you. - Mordecai

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence. - Dido Armstrong

Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

You just pick a chord, go twang, and you've got music. - Sid Vicious

Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated. - John Barbirolli

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Berthold Auerbach

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. - Arthur O'Shaughnessy

I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano. - Vanessa Carlton

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. - Luciano Pavarotti

The symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything. - Gustav Mahler

The hardest instrument in the orchestra to play is second fiddle. - Leonard Bernstein

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. - Albert Schweitzer

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. - Larry Niven

When you are about 35 years old, something terrible always happens to music. - Steve Race

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano. - Frederic Chopin

The trouble with dancing naked is that not everything stops when the music does. - Unknown

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. - William Congreve

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. - Agnes De Mille

If you're in jazz and more than ten people like you, you're labeled commercial. - Herbie Mann

My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play. - Frank Sinatra

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler

Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it. - John Lennon

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. - Johann Sebastian Bach

Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. - Haruki Murakami

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. - S.J. Perelman

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common. - Sarah Dessen

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. - Joseph Addison

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. - Thomas Beecham

When I was nine, my father said 'You can take piano lessons or do karate' - I had a black belt and was competing before I was 19. - Elodie Yung

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, makes me feel like music. - Lauren Oliver

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt